Gustav Kastropp was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, librettist and musician. Kastropp's texts were used by composers such as Georg Schumann

Georg Schumann (composer)

Georg Alfred Schumann was a German composer and director of the Berlin Singakademie.-Biography:Schumann was born at Königstein, Germany, October 25, 1866. He was the son of Clemens Schumann and the older brother of Camillo Schumann...

, Eugen d'Albert

Eugen d'Albert

Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...

 and Bernhard Stavenhagen

Bernhard Stavenhagen

Bernhard Stavenhagen was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music.-Biography:...

.

Biography

Kastropp was born in Salmünster, Hesse

Hesse

Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

. He went to Gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Göttingen and just like his father he worked as a pharmacist

Pharmacist

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. He studied music at the conservatories in Stuttgart, Göttingen and Sondershausen. From 1874 to 1877 he taught literature at the Großherzogligen Orchesterschule in Weimar.

He died in Hildesheim

Hildesheim

Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...

, Germany September 11, 1925.

Works

• König Elfs Lieder (1875)
• Helene (1875)
• Suleika (1876)
• Gnomenmärchen (1877)
• Dornröschen (1877)
• Das vierblättrige Kleebatt (1879), with Richard Roltsch
• Kain (1880)
• Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1880)
• Agamemnon (1890)
• Gunhild (1891)
• Phantasien und Märchen (1891)
• Gernot (1896), libretto for an opera by Eugen d'Albert
• Der Improvisator (1902), libretto for an opera by Eugen d'Albert

External links

• Poets and librettists